Present-day stress field changes along the Baikal rift and tectonic implications

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1171-1191

  Petit, Carole ^a,d   Déverchère, Jacques ^a,d   Houdry, Frédérique ^a,d   Sankov, Vladimir A ^b   Melnikova, Valentina I ^b   Delvaux, Damien ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^c ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^d LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; EXTENSION; FOCAL MECHANISM; INTRAPLATE AREA; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, BAIKAL RIFT ZONE;

EID: 0030417612     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC00624     Document Type: Article

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